Identifier: cu31924027975121 (find matches)
Title: Essentials in English history (from the earliest records to the present day)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Albert Perry, 1862-1911 Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943
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Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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16 COURSE AND CONDITIONS OF ENGLISH HISTORY(B) Influence of Physical Conditions on English HiSTUliY Many of the before-mentioned changes have resulted in part from physical conditions, such as land surface, climate, and location. Geography explains history, and a pre-6. Contour . . of the Brit- liminary study of some of these conditions is therefore ish Isles necessary. The theater of the development of the English nation is agroup of about live thousand islands, of which two are muchlarger than the rest. The area of the entire group is about121,000 square miles—.or nearly that of Pennsylvania, Ohio,and Indiana. Of this area, almost seven tenths belongs to theisland of Great Britain, and a little more than one fourthto Ireland. The islands have a great economic advantage intheir irregular coast line. While Europe has but one mileof seacoast to every 200 square miles of area, the ratio ofcoast to area in the British Isles is ten times as great.Furthermore, this sea exposure is the mo

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